I don't care what critics and other people think.

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.

(The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.

I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.